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The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is regularly plagued by the fact that humanity has a very limited perspective on civilization and the nature of intelligence itself. When it comes right down to it, the only examples we have to go on are \u201clife as we know it\u201d (aka. Earth organisms) and human civilization. On top of that, given the age of the Universe and the time life has had to evolve on other planets, it is a foregone conclusion that any advanced life in our galaxy would be older than humanity. Luckily, this presents an opportunity to develop and test theoretical frameworks in the field.<\/p>\n
To paraphrase Freeman Dyson, if we can conceive of a concept (and the physics are sound), an advanced species will likely have built it already. In this respect, imagining where humanity will be centuries or eons from now could provide potential \u201ctechnosignatures\u201d to look for. In a recent paper, a team from the Blue Marble Space Institute of Science (BMSIS) and NASA\u2019s Goddard Space Flight Center modeled a series of scenarios that attempt to predict what humanity\u2019s \u201ctechnosphere\u201d could look like 1,000 years from now. Their research could have implications for future SETI studies.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n The research team was led by Jacob Haqq-Misra, an astrobiologist and Research Scientist at Blue Marble Space Institute of Science. He was joined by George Profitiliotis, an Affiliate Research Scientist with BMSIS and a co-founder of the Greek NewSpace Society, and Ravi Kopparapu, a Planetary Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. The preprint of their paper recently appeared in Elsevier<\/em> and is being reviewed for publication in the journal Technological Forecasting and Social Change<\/em>. The paper is the first in a series titled \u201cProjections of Earth\u2019s technosphere.\u201d<\/p>\n \n